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Cleveland Browns Hire Special Teams Coordinator After Bubba Ventrone’s Departure
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Cleveland Browns Hire Special Teams Coordinator After Bubba Ventrone’s Departure
Here's everything you need to know about the first-time special teams coordinator just hired by new Cleveland Browns head coach Todd Monken.

The Cleveland Browns are aiming to have their full coaching staff assembled by next week, and they made major progress towards that on Tuesday evening.

According to several reports, the Browns have hired their new special teams coordinator. The Browns didn’t retain Bubba Ventrone, who was quickly hired as the new special teams coordinator of the Los Angeles Rams.

The Browns are hiring Green Bay Packers assistant special teams coordinator Byron Storer.

Who is Byron Storer?
Storer played fullback for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers from 2007-2009. Immediately following his playing career, he transitioned to a special teams assistant with the Buccaneers from 2010-2011.

After a few seasons with the San Diego Chargers, Storer took a five-year hiatus from coaching football until he landed with the Las Vegas Raiders in 2018. The 41-year-old has been a key assistant for Rich Bisaccia with the Raiders and Packers and now gets to run his own unit for new head coach Todd Monken.

Special teams has always been a part of Storer’s story, as he was a second-team All-Pac-10 special teamer from 2004-2006 at the University of California Berkeley.

ource: The #Browns are hiring #Packers Assistant Special Teams Coordinator Byron Storer as their new Special Teams Coordinator.

A big hire for HC Todd Monken, Storer has been a key assistant for Rich Bisaccia with the Raiders and Packers and now gets to run his own unit in… pic.twitter.com/7hmyhNb1xs

— Ari Meirov (@MySportsUpdate) February 10, 2026
The Browns will need to be much better on special teams than they have been over the last few seasons. Under Ventrone’s watch last year, the Browns had the No. 29 ranked special teams unit.

As the Browns watched their season spiral, Ventrone called out the lack of talent on his special teams unit as the reason for so many repeated errors.

"We haven't played near our capabilities," Ventrone said in December. "We've had too many, too many issues with just, just dumb, dumb, dumb, dumb football, dumb mistakes.”

When a roster is young and inexperienced, special teams tend to struggle as teams might not have many talented depth players to play on that unit. That was the case for the Browns at the end of last season, as undrafted free agent receiver Gage Larvadain struggled with return responsibilities. Unfortunately, the Browns had to keep playing him as they didn’t have many other options.

When the team introduced Monken, Browns general manager Andrew Berry stated that they would work to become one of the youngest rosters in the NFL next season. This would signal that special teams might not be a major priority.

But with Storer’s experience working under an established special teams coordinator like Bisaccia, the Browns will hope that their unit will vastly improve.

Who knows? Good luck.

One thing I'd like to see is the addition of an assistant ST coach. I don't think the Browns have had any for a while. The job is big enough that the coordinator needs at least one asst.

It seems rather odd that a guy that young would take "a five-year hiatus from coaching football". That or maybe that's just the best spin they could put on it?

Can't be any worse than Bubba Ventrone.

As Byron Storer says hold my beer.

Bubba Ventrone special team's unit lost 2 games for the Browns in 2025 single handedly. The Bengals games missed an extra point and missed a chip shot field goal and lost by 1. The Jets game gave up a kick return and punt return for touchdowns and lost by 7 in a game the Browns out gained the Jets by 150+ yards.

Of course as per usual that is the coaches fault and not the GM who built the roster. Did he coach them how not to catch a punt or kickoff? Did he teach them not to secure the ball? Some of the lengths people will go to in order to lay the fault at one mans feet amazes me.

Ven trone was a massive disappointment as SCC. He even had guys from defense volunteering for SC duty, and still couldn't field as capable unit.

No one said anything about the GM. Yes, he failed and should have been fired also. I am not sure why he is brought up talking about the special teams though. Special teams was a disaster in 2025 and Bubba Ventrone's coaching or lack there of was responsible for the special teams.

Like baseball, you can’t sack an entire squad so the coach gets it. I’d imagine new coach would have had a guy in mind anyway. I’m more concerned about a DC hire who I thought the new coach might have had a VERY short list to begin with…

It seems I need to break this down for you in the most basic of ways. We all learned the story of the Three Little Pigs.

Remember the house made of bricks and how the Big Bad Wolf couldn't blow it down? The only unit on this team that has the talent level that would compare to brick is the defense.

The ST's is made out of straw. You know how easily the wolf blew that house down.

In the simplest of terms you are blaming the man that had no choice but to build his house out of the straw he was given rather than the man who would only give him straw to build the house with.

I hope that helps.

Somebody has to wear it.

Overall, I was kinda disappointed in the way ST played under Bubba... So I'm not sad about him being gone.

It doesn't help with my thinking


This whole NFL and being a pro is becoming a joke to me anymore

These players have played football, for most of them as kids. Learning and gaining experience as they grow into middle school, high school college.

Then they are in a Professional football league. How they got there, does that change the fact they are considered professional ?

As these players played and watched the game they should know. Not to down a punt return if your foot is standing on the goal line or catch the ball on the 2 yd line with no chances of running it back.

Let the ball hit the ground and hope it goes into the end zone. Hell Pit you even know that.

Here are words from Bubba himself.


As the Browns watched their season spiral, Ventrone called out the lack of talent on his special teams unit as the reason for so many repeated errors.

"We haven't played near our capabilities," Ventrone said in December. "We've had too many, too many issues with just, just dumb, dumb, dumb, dumb football, dumb mistakes.”


So isn't it your job to coach and teach the players what to do and not to do on ST's ?

Bubba was a Buffoon and couldn't coach his players up. Plain and simple. It's what coaches are meant to do. As so many said, if Bill Callahan was in Cleveland the Browns line would be better.

Is that because Bill had players he didn't have to coach because they were just good.

Or was it because Bill took players and coached them on how to be good ?


Bubba is gone and you seem to have some kind of a coach crush on him. Stefanski is gone as well. Two coaches that not only fans saw that were't helping the team. So were the sport analysts who were saying the same thing.

Idk, but I'm looking forward to seeing what the changes will bring. Might be God, or it might not. Until September, who knows.

Maybe he wanted to spend time with his family or had personal reasons more important than a football game.

I read he got into helping his family’s business, iirc